It is no big secret than an awful lot of local musicians and churches buy an awful lot of music accessories, instruments etc., on the internet or from mail order. Topeka has lost locally owned Reel Music, Dan’s Guitar, Donna Allen’s Keyboard, and Midwestern Music in the last few years. The reasons for these businesses demise vary, but the lack of local support is certainly a factor in most cases. (Dan’s unfortunate auto accident being the obvious exception.) Keep in mind everytime you send your Topeka earned dollars off to someplace else more store fronts and more jobs will leave Topeka. Many individuals, schools, and churches, as a matter of course, and for various reasons, just don’t support us and other locally owned businesses.
A good reason to support us is we have garnered quite a bit of knowledge that saves you time and or money.
Here are a couple incidents from just this morning.
A person called complaining that the EMG pickups that were internet ordered for their internet ordered guitar didn’t distort despite the description online. We installed them so we must have screwed up. Well, no, EMG pickups aren’t distortion boxes. These people could have saved themselves a lot of hassle and money by shopping with us and getting some advice.
Or we have the guy that just called complaining that the speaker cables he had just ordered in didn’t work. They weren’t wired up, (which might help explain any money savings). What do we charge to wire them? And, by the way, this person was great friends with one of the staff guys here. Sorry, send the worthless cables back to where ythey were purchased and come in and purchase cables from us that actually work. If the fellow that works here is really your friend maybe you’d consider doing business with him so he will have a job in the future.
Yeah, that “Buy It Now” is awfully easy, but it makes the day that much sooner in which you will not even have a local option. That’s the plain truth.
